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...Orton's thoroughly ruthless world. Harlan's intense Truscott, at once menacing and ridiculous, is an appropriate blend of Sherlock Holmes, a Keystone Kop and Adolf Hitler. His quick-paced style works especially well in some of the play's wittiest exchanges, such as when members of the household find Truscott snooping through their belongings...
...example, the industry in which foreigners employed the largest percentage of American workers (61.2 percent) was cement manufacturing. By comparison, only 39.7 percent of American workers in household audio and video equipment manufacturing worked for foreign-owned companies. Foreigners do control 12.5 percent of the sales in electronics manufacturing, but they also control 16.8 percent of the sales in mining...
Other pervasive allergens are the spores made by molds, both the outdoor kind that grow on crops, grass and dead leaves and the household variety found on foods, leather, furniture and in air conditioners. All these fungi spores can produce vigorous allergic reactions. "Molds are boggling," says Washington University's Lewis. "There can be hundreds of thousands of mold spores per cubic meter of air." And, he points out, a person inhales about 10 or 12 cu m of air each...
...name it, and Olympic track star Jeanette Bolden, 32, is probably allergic to it. Household dust, cats, seafood. Just the smell of fish cooking on a grill is enough to make her eyes puff up and start to water. But Bolden's allergies are linked to a more serious problem. Like 15 million other Americans, she suffers from asthma, a chronic affliction of the airways in the lungs that can turn the simplest act of breathing into hard labor and leave a person gasping, coughing and wheezing for air. Last fall the gold medalist (100-m relay, 1984) was hospitalized...
Discerning that line can be difficult. For instance, were Household International executives Michael DeLuca and Donald Lohmann just lucky when they elected to unload about three-quarters of their holdings at between 53 and 55 a share only days before the big Chicago-area financial concern revealed problem loans? Household's stock sank 11 points in the aftermath of the March 26 announcement. Neither executive is accused of wrongdoing...